Quotes About Family

The nanny you let into your home seduces your husband, sets fire to your life. And all because you wanted to work and be a mother.

She was annoyed by her mother's lack of consideration for the rest of the family, not to mention her lack of foresight about the future. Elizabeth was unwilling to talk about alternatives to living alone in a gigantic old house that she might not be able to manage one day, the care of which would fall to Maggie and Jones.

Marrying a woman of priestly ancestry was a special blessing.

and they shared her joy. Luke 1:58

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire just started. She won't even notice I've gone!" He stuck his head around the door anyway. "Just heading out with Emily, Mom." "No, it's B, you idiot!" she shouted at the television.

True kinship has naught to do with blood ties, however strong they be. I think we are all kin, brothers and sisters one to the other, all children of all parents.

My knowledge of parental duties was slight—something to do with graham crackers and proper underclothing. But those duties certainly did not include dashing off to a country of furious Illyrians and, probably, bad drinking water.

Is—is Achren your mother?" Taran gasped and drew back fearfully. "Certainly not!" cried the girl. "I am Eilonwy

She would die, Claire realized, before she would give up the love she felt for her son.

But their shoulders were as straight as they had been in the past: in the classroom, on the stage, at the Sabbath table. So there were other sources, too, of pride, and they had not left everything behind.

Henrik, you need a wife," Mama scolded him. Uncle Henrik laughed and joined Mama on the steps near the kitchen door. "Why do I need a wife, when I have a sister?

It sure doesn't take long to start to love a kid.

Dying is a very solitary thing. The only thing we can do it be there when she wants us there.

Two children—one male, one female—to each family unit. It was written very clearly in the rules.

Most of the people on the night crew had not even been given spouses because they lacked, somehow, the essential capacity to connect to others, which was required for the creation of a family unit.

Suddenly he was aware with certainty and joy that below, ahead, they were waiting for him; and that they were waiting, too, for the baby.

Mama was out shopping with Kirsti, Annemarie and Ellen were sprawled on the living room floor playing with paper dolls. They had cut the dolls from Mama's magazines, old ones she had saved from past years. The paper ladies had old-fashioned hair styles and clothes, and the girls had given them names from Mama's very favorite book. Mama had told Annemarie and Ellen the entire story of Gone With the

Delwyth, Bethan, and Eira be their names—I midwifed each one, same year.

The Willoughby parents frequently forgot that they had children and became quite irritable when they were reminded of it.

Two children—one male, one female—to each family unit.

She married, surprisingly, her stepbrother Tim, who, as predicted, became an attorney. The

Don't ever be sorry for that. Weren't we lucky that Papa thought so quickly and found the pictures? And weren't we lucky that Lise had dark hair when she was a baby? It turned blond later on, when she was two or so." "In between," Papa added, "she was bald for a while!" Ellen and Annemarie both smiled tentatively. For a moment their fear was eased.

hurry through the evening's last light to the homeplace, where the blind

This new Caleb was a replacement child. The couple had lost their first Caleb, a cheerful little Four.